Nonprofits

Nonprofit Leaders Need to Look in the Mirror on Election Day

By Rosetta Thurman

Change starts at home.

Government

Dropping the Ball

By Anthony Ewing

Why the Soccer Ball Project—one of the world's first multistakeholder efforts to stop abuses of labor rights—is failing to protect workers in Pakistan.

Podcast

Good Measures Conference - Evaluation in the Nonprofit Sector

Evaluation is one of the most powerful mechanisms a nonprofit organization can use to unlock its potential, become more effective, and achieve success. But traditional evaluation methods are expensive, require thorough knowledge of the social sciences, and take a good deal of time to perform. In this part of the Stanford Social Innovation Review's conference on evaluation, Mark Kramer details how nonprofits can better incorporate evaluation to achieve their mission and bring about social change.

Social Innovations

Making Sense of the Social Capital Landscape: Defining a Common Language

By Kevin Jones 1

The new social capital market is great, but won't answer all of society's problems.

Nonprofits

Warren Buffet’s Fundraising Advice

By Jeff Brooks

The only thing fundraisers have to fear is fear itself.

Nonprofits

A Trip Down Merger Lane

By Jean Butzen

Thinking outside the fundraising box may involve a merger with a larger organization.

Nonprofits

Nonprofits Need Generation Y Leadership in an Uncertain Economy

By Rosetta Thurman

The energy and talents of a new cadre of leaders may help nonprofits emerge out of the economic funk.

Nonprofits

Election Critical for Nonprofits, Giving

By Todd Cohen

Nonprofits' policy wish list for the new administration.

Podcast

Wendy Kopp - Raising the Bar for Low-Income Students

Teach For America places thousands of energetic and committed college graduates as teachers in under-resourced schools for their first jobs. In this audio lecture recorded at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Wendy Kopp shares why and how she started Teach for America in 1980, and its progress in raising the bar for under-achieving children. She also discusses how the organization rode out its "dark years," when enthusiasm and corporate support for the effort began to wane.

Nonprofits

Monk E-Business

By Suzie Boss

LaserMonks, a multimillion-dollar enterprise, sells ink-jet cartridges and other office supplies online to support its Cistercian abbey in Wisconsin and to help others.